Fine specificity analysis indicates that the primary and secondary fluorescein-specific cytotoxic T cell receptor repertoires are indistinguishable.

abstract：:A clone of cells secreting an antibody to an epidermal antigen was generated from a patient with a blistering skin lesion. Although produced by fusion of human lymphocytes to a HAT-sensitive myeloma, this clone of cells did not have characteristics of a hybridoma. A true hybridoma was produced by fusion of this clone ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Hohmann AW,Coleman M,Comacchio RM,Skinner JM,Bradley J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic fusion of tandem repeats of the complement molecule C3d has been shown to considerably enhance immune responses to genetic vaccines. We have investigated the applicability of this approach to augment humoral immune responses toward vaccines delivered by recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors. C3d(3)-...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Logan GJ,Wang L,Zheng M,Coppel RL,Alexander IE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Productive immune responses to T-cell-dependent antigens ultimately generate two long-lived compartments: memory B cells and bone marrow-resident plasma cells, which both arise from within germinal centres. The ability of a B-cell clone to populate these effector compartments requires its descendents to outcompete tho...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Tarlinton DM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory mediators upon pathogen detection. The evolution of receptors for self major histocompatibility complex-I and stress-induced ligands also bestows upon NK cells an important effec...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Huntington ND

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-gal epitope (Galalpha1-3Galbeta1-(3)4GlcNAc-R) is abundantly synthesized on glycolipids and glycoproteins of non-primate mammals and New World monkeys by the glycosylation enzyme alpha1,3galactosyltransferase (alpha1,3GT). In humans, apes and Old World monkeys, this epitope is absent because the alpha1,3GT g...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Galili U

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that SRBC can be opsonized with untreated human serum such that lysis by active complement components is minimal but sufficient opsonization occurs to permit high rates of complement-mediated phagocytosis. Phagocytosis of SRBC opsonized with 2% whole human serum by human monocyte-derived...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chan HT,Kedzierska K,O'Mullane J,Crowe SM,Jaworowski A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-toxic agents that target intracellular signalling pathways in apoptosis may have potential therapeutic use in many diseases. One such agent is the transition metal Zn, a dietary cytoprotectant and anti-oxidant, which stimulates cell proliferation and suppresses apoptosis. Zn is maintained in discrete subcellular p...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chai F,Truong-Tran AQ,Ho LH,Zalewski PD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory mechanisms in mucosal secretions and tissues recognize antigens and attenuate pro-inflammatory cytokine responses. Here, we asked whether human beta-defensin 3 (HBD3) serves as an upstream suppressor of cytokine signaling that binds and attenuates pro-inflammatory cytokine responses to recombinant hemagglut...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Pingel LC,Kohlgraf KG,Hansen CJ,Eastman CG,Dietrich DE,Burnell KK,Srikantha RN,Xiao X,Bélanger M,Progulske-Fox A,Cavanaugh JE,Guthmiller JM,Johnson GK,Joly S,Kurago ZB,Dawson DV,Brogden KA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells play a pivotal role in the immune system and are responsible for the synthesis and release of immunoglobulins. Numerous in vitro culture experiments on the yolk sac demonstrated the generation of mature cells of the myeloid and lymphoid lineages under appropriate culture conditions. However, there are no ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Kanayama N,Suganuma N,Terao T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in sequential immunoglobulin G (IgG) class switching are still largely unknown. Sequential IG class switching is linked to higher levels of somatic hypermutation (SHM) in vivo, but it remains unclear if these are generated temporally during an immune response or upon activation in a secondary r...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： de Jong BG,IJspeert H,Marques L,van der Burg M,van Dongen JJ,Loos BG,van Zelm MC

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive immune system arose 600 million years ago in a cold-blooded fish. Over countless generations, our antecedents tuned the function of the T-cell receptor (TCR). The TCR system is arguably the most complex known to science. The TCR evolved hypervariability to fight the hypervariability of pathogens and cance...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Watkins TS,Miles JJ

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular effects of biodiesel emissions particulate matter (BDEP) and petroleum diesel emissions particulate matter (PDEP) were compared using a human airway cell line, A549. At concentrations of 25 microg/ml, diesel particulate matter induced the formation of multinucleate cells. In cells treated with a mixture o...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ackland ML,Zou L,Freestone D,van de Waasenburg S,Michalczyk AA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule (MAdCAM-1) is a key player in mediating the infiltration of leucocytes into chronically inflamed tissues. Five anti-MAdCAM-1 monoclonal antibodies (mAb), designated 17F5, 201F7, 314G8, 377D10 and 355G8, were generated by fusion of P3 x 63Ag8.653 myeloma cells with spleen cells ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Leung E,Lehnert KB,Kanwar JR,Yang Y,Mon Y,McNeil HP,Krissansen GW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of infections like sepsis and meningitis, especially in immunocompromised hosts. Human macrophages are able to phagocytose and digest L. monocytogenes but IL-4 prevents human macrophages from killing the bacteria, the mechanisms of which are unknown. In the present study, ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Neumann K,Eppler E,Filgueira L,Groscurth P,Gasal E,Schaffner A,Schoedon G,Schneemann M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus achieves its ubiquitous and uniform epidemiological distribution by a dual strategy of latency to guarantee lifelong persistence and intermittent replication to guarantee transmission. These two functions appear to dictate residence in different cell types: latency in B lymphocytes and replication i...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Schmidt CW,Misko IS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine monoclonal antibody has been used to characterise a 45,000 Da antigen that is associated with the surface membrane of merozoites of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The antigen is a glycoprotein and incorporates myristic acid. ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ramasamy R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 120-kDa protein product of the c-Cbl proto-oncogene is a ubiquitously expressed cytoplasmic protein that is especially abundant in the thymus, indicating an important role for Cbl in thymic signalling. c-Cbl possesses a highly conserved N-terminal phosphotyrosine binding domain, a C3HC4 RING finger motif, multiple...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Thien CB,Langdon WY

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PVG rats are resistant to actively induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and this appears to be directly related to high and sustained systemic levels of reactive nitrogen intermediates(RNI) following sensitization for EAE when compared to the highly susceptible Lewis rat. An apparent cellular basis ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Staykova MA,Cowden W,Willenborg DO

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to model the mechanism by which leucocytes may be actively repulsed by a beta-chemokine signal. This model is used to interpret an apparent paradox in chemokine biology, whereby high levels of a T-cell chemoattractant, stromal cell derived factor-1 (SDF-1), are present in bone marrow and thymic tissues despi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zlatopolskiy A,Laurence J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NK gene complex (NKC) on mouse chromosome 6 encodes receptors that are expressed on NK cells, such as Ly49H, and is involved in regulating NK cell control of virus infections, such as murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV). In the present study, we investigated the level of allelic heterogeneity in NKC loci in populations ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Scalzo AA,Manzur M,Forbes CA,Brown MG,Shellam GR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections can disturb the functions of adipose tissues and thus result in metabolic diseases. Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C)), a synthetic analog of viral double-stranded RNA, induces innate antiviral responses by mimicking viral infection through the activation of pattern recognition receptors (PRR...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yu L,Liu G,Yang C,Song X,Wang H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ficolins are important and widely distributed pattern recognition molecules that can induce lectin complement pathway activation and initiate the innate immune response. Although ficolins can bind lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in vitro, the sources, dynamic changes and roles of local ficolins in LPS-induced pulmonary infla...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wu X,Yao D,Bao L,Liu D,Xu X,An Y,Zhang X,Cao B

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA techniques were used to clone, construct and express the bifunctional molecule FV/IL-2. The FV/IL-2 is a single-chain 37 kDa fusion protein expressed in Escherichia coli under control of the strong T7 bacteriophage promoter in the expression vector pT7-7-FV-IL-2. The fused gene fragment FV-IL-2 contain...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xiang J,Liu E,Moyana T,Qi Y

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular interactions between the T-cell receptor (TCR) and peptide-MHC (pMHC) have been elucidated in recent years. Nevertheless, the fact that binding of only slightly different ligands by a TCR, or ligation of the same pMHC at different developmental stages of the T cell, can have opposing consequences, contin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Regner M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal keratitis is a major cause of corneal ulcers, resulting in significant visual impairment and blindness. A phosphorylated glycoprotein secreted by immunocompetent cells, osteopontin (OPN) mediates cluster formation of the host fungal receptors and enhances the phagocytosis and clearance of pathogenic fungi. Howe...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zhao G,Hu M,Li C,Lee J,Yuan K,Zhu G,Che C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influx of Ca2+ via Ca2+ channels is the major step triggering exocytosis of pituitary somatotropes to release growth hormone (GH). Voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ channels, the primary determinants of the influx of Ca2+, are regulated by GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) through G-protein-coupled intracellular signalling systems....

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chen C,Xu R,Clarke IJ,Ruan M,Loneragan K,Roh SG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-4 (IL-4) has previously been implicated in a protective response to Staphylococcus aureus corneal infection. Consequently, the specific role of IL-4 during S. aureus corneal infection was investigated using IL-4 gene knockout mice. The eyes of IL-4-/- mice and wild-type mice were challenged topically with ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Cole N,Hume EB,Khan S,Garthwaite L,Schubert T,Reeve V,Willcox MD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) were considered to be a phenotypically and functionally homogeneous cell population; however, recent analyses indicate potential heterogeneity. This is of major interest, given their importance in the induction of anti-viral responses and their role in creating immunologically...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bryant C,Fromm PD,Kupresanin F,Clark G,Lee K,Clarke C,Silveira PA,Suen H,Brown R,Newman E,Cunningham I,Ho PJ,Gibson J,Bradstock K,Joshua D,Hart DNj

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granzyme B (GrB) plays a well-established intracellular role in cytotoxic lymphocyte (CL)-mediated killing of abnormal cells; however, emerging evidence suggests that it participates in extracellular matrix remodeling and target cell destruction through anoikis. As these processes require the release of GrB from the C...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Prakash MD,Bird CH,Bird PI

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though smallpox has been eradicated, the threat of accidental or intentional release has highlighted the fact there is little consensus about correlates of protective immunity or immunity against re-infection with the causative poxvirus, variola virus (VARV). As the existing vaccine for smallpox has unacceptable ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Panchanathan V,Chaudhri G,Karupiah G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00